[GZG] Sheep lawnmowers (was: RE: Mineresistantvehicles) [SEC=PERSONAL]

["Robertson, Brendan" <Brendan.Robertson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Further reading (as this sort of stuff is part of my day job):

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=memorials/ww1mem/vimy

http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=87900&mode=1

No mention of sheep on the site, but its very common to use sheep/goats to keep the lawn down in Commonwealth War Graves (+ the gardiners for the fiddly bits).

Brendan
'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of Brian Burger
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles [TO BE CLASSIFIED]
> 
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Michael wrote:
> > Sheep! of course the are used as mine detectors!
> 
> At the Vimy Ridge Memorial, Parks Canada[1] uses a flock of 
> sheep as lawnmowers. There´s an average of one UXO per square 
> metre, so it´s far too hazardous to use any sort of 
> human-operated lawnmower. They lose about one sheep a year to 
> something 80+ years old finally going Boom.[2]
> 
> Brian
> warbard.ca
> [1] Parks Canada, because the territory of the Memorial is a 
> gift to the people of Canada from the people of France, in 
> perpetuity. That makes these particular UXO our problem, pretty much.
> [2] The group of 13-ish English schoolkids I wound up touring 
> Vimy Ridge with (they were the entirety of the next tour, I 
> was allowed to tag along) were far more interested in the 
> fate of the sheep than the history of some old foriegn 
> monument... can´t really blame them, they´d been doing the 
> Western Front for the past three days and were rather 
> monumented out...

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